Balancing Oakland's Budget
Closing the city’s structural deficit to move toward fiscal solvency and economic growth
Watershed Moments
Policy Brief / Climate scientists predict that California will experience longer, more frequent droughts as the climate warms. How can the Bay Area better manage the limited water it has? SPUR, Greenbelt Alliance and Pacific Institute teamed up to highlight six Northern California leaders who are pioneering more sustainable approaches to water use.
SPUR-Sponsored State Housing Bills Move Forward in Sacramento
News / With the California State Legislature back from its spring recess, key SPUR-sponsored housing legislation is making its way through the Assembly Local Government and Housing and Community Development committees. We’re supporting bills to prohibit minimum parking requirements for new buildings near transit, allow faster permitting of shelters for unhoused people, make development fees more transparent and more.
How We Got a Parkway for the People
News / This spring, SPUR and San Francisco celebrate the culmination of an extraordinary public project that started 31 years ago: the Presidio Parkway. What began as a safety project to replace a dangerous elevated highway became a community-led process to heal a landscape torn apart by freeway building. SPUR played a critical role in bringing people together to complete this once-in-a-generation project.
SPUR 2021-2022 Annual Report
Annual Report /2021-2022
This year, SPUR celebrated the completion of the Regional Strategy and began the long-term work of building toward the future it envisions. We tackled immediate concerns, like public transit’s fiscal crisis, and pursued the longer-term changes that will influence quality of life for generations.
Different Together: The 2022 State of SPUR Address
News / In this year's State of SPUR address, given at our annual Board of Directors retreat, SPUR President and CEO Alicia John-Baptiste reflected on the past few years and looked ahead to how we can build on what we've learned, so that the region's future is one in which all people thrive.